Dillon (surname)
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Dillon is a family name
Family name
A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...

 of Irish
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 origin. It has frequently been used to anglicise Dilleen in Munster and Connacht, while in Leinster it derives from the Norman
Normans
The Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Norse Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock...

 family name de Leon meaning either "of Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

" or "of the lion". It is sometimes taken to mean "loyal" or "faithful" by extension from the "of the lion" origin. It is particularly common in the Meath
County Meath
County Meath is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Mid-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Mide . Meath County Council is the local authority for the county...

 and Westmeath
County Westmeath
-Economy:Westmeath has a strong agricultural economy. Initially, development occurred around the major market centres of Mullingar, Moate, and Kinnegad. Athlone developed due to its military significance, and its strategic location on the main Dublin–Galway route across the River Shannon. Mullingar...

 counties of Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

. Viscount Dillon
Viscount Dillon
Viscount Dillon, of Costello-Gallen in the County of Mayo, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1622 for Theobald Dillon, Lord President of Connaught. The Dillons were an Hiberno-Norman landlord family from the 13th century in a part of County Westmeath was called 'Dillon's...

 is also a title in the Peerage of Ireland
Peerage of Ireland
The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,...

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The Dillon Motto: Dum Spiro, Spero (While I breathe, I hope).

Dillon is the family name of the following individuals:
  • Andrew Dillon Dean of the School of Information at The University of Texas from Limerick
    Limerick
    Limerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and the principal city of County Limerick and Ireland's Mid-West Region. It is the fifth most populous city in all of Ireland. When taking the extra-municipal suburbs into account, Limerick is the third largest conurbation in the...

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  • Arthur Dillon
    Arthur Dillon (1670-1733)
    Arthur, count of Dillon was a Jacobite soldier from Ireland who served in the French army.- Career :...

     (1670–1733), an Irish-born soldier in the French army.
  • Arthur Dillon
    Arthur Dillon (1750-1794)
    *Biographie moderne, Paris Eymery Éditeur ;...

     (1750–1794), French-Irish soldier, grandson of Arthur Dillon (1670–1733).
  • Arthur Dillon
    Arthur Dillon (1834-1922)
    Arthur Dillon was a French cavalry officer and journalist, and friend of général Boulanger. He was the grandson of General Arthur Dillon , descended from a family of exile Irish Jacobites....

     (1834–1922), French cavalry officer and Boulangiste, grandson of Arthur Dillon (1750–1794).
  • Austin Dillon
    Austin Dillon
    Austin Dillon is an American stock car racing driver. He is the son of former driver and RCR general manager Mike Dillon and grandson of Richard Childress....

    , a NASCAR
    NASCAR
    The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...

     driver
  • Mgr.
    Monsignor
    Monsignor, pl. monsignori, is the form of address for those members of the clergy of the Catholic Church holding certain ecclesiastical honorific titles. Monsignor is the apocopic form of the Italian monsignore, from the French mon seigneur, meaning "my lord"...

     Arthur Richard Dillon
    Arthur Richard Dillon
    Arthur Richard Dillon , French archbishop, was the son of Arthur Dillon , one of the Irish Wild Geese who became a general in the French service....

     (1721–1807), a French
    French people
    The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

    -Irish
    Irish people
    The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

     archbishop
    Archbishop
    An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

     of Toulouse
    Toulouse
    Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

     and Narbonne
    Narbonne
    Narbonne is a commune in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It lies from Paris in the Aude department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Once a prosperous port, it is now located about from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea...

    , son of Arthur Dillon (1670–1733).
  • Bernard "Albert" Dillon
    Bernard Dillon
    Bernard Dillon was born at Caherina in Tralee. In 1901 he joined his older brother Joe, both of them being apprentice jockeys at the famous Druids Lodge training establishment in Wiltshire England...

     (died 1922), an Irish
    Irish people
    The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

     jockey
    Jockey
    A jockey is an athlete who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing.-Etymology:...

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  • Cara Dillon
    Cara Dillon
    Cara Dillon is an Irish folk singer. In 2001, she launched her career as a solo artist in the UK with the eponymous Cara Dillon album...

     (born 1975), a folk singer
    Folk music
    Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

     from Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

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  • Clarence Dillon
    Clarence Dillon
    Clarence Dillon, , was an American financier, and namesake of Dillon, Read & Co., an investment bank.-Background:...

     (1882–1979), an American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     businessman from San Antonio, Texas
    San Antonio, Texas
    San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...

    . Father of C. Douglas Dillon
    C. Douglas Dillon
    Clarence Douglas Dillon was an American diplomat and politician, who served as U.S. Ambassador to France and as the 57th Secretary of the Treasury...

    .
  • C. Douglas Dillon
    C. Douglas Dillon
    Clarence Douglas Dillon was an American diplomat and politician, who served as U.S. Ambassador to France and as the 57th Secretary of the Treasury...

     (1909–2003), 57th United States Secretary of the Treasury
    United States Secretary of the Treasury
    The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also with some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United...

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  • Corey Dillon
    Corey Dillon
    Corey James Dillon is a former American football running back. He played his ten-season career for the Cincinnati Bengals and the New England Patriots, wearing jersey number 28 for both teams. Dillon played college football the University of Washington where he wore the number 4.-High school...

     (born 1974), an American football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     running back
    Running back
    A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...

     for the New England Patriots
    New England Patriots
    The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats", are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium. The team is part of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National...

     NFL
    National Football League
    The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

     franchise.
  • Costa Dillon
    Costa Dillon
    Constantine Dillon , usually known as Costa, is an American writer and actor of Greek ancestry. He is most famous as the creator of the cult classic film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! and its sequels:Return of the Killer Tomatoes!,...

     (born 1953)
  • David Dillon
    David Dillon
    -Life:Born in 1951 in Hutchinson, Kansas, Dillon graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1969. Dillon is an Eagle Scout and was a senior patrol leader in Boy Scout Troop 301, of which his father was Scoutmaster. Dillon attended the University of Kansas, where he was student body president and...

    , CEO
    Chief executive officer
    A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

     and Chairman of Kroger Company
    Kroger
    The Kroger Co. is an American supermarket chain founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reported US$ 76.7 billion in sales during fiscal year 2009. It is the country's largest grocery store chain and its second-largest grocery retailer by volume and second-place general retailer...

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  • Denis Dillon
    Denis Dillon
    Denis E. Dillon , a graduate of Fordham University School of Law and Fordham University, served as the District Attorney of Nassau County, New York from 1974 to 2005...

    , District Attorney of Nassau County, New York
    Nassau County, New York
    Nassau County is a suburban county on Long Island, east of New York City in the U.S. state of New York, within the New York Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,339,532...

     from 1973 to 2005.
  • Emile Joseph Dillon
    E. J. Dillon
    Emile Joseph Dillon was an author, journalist and linguist.The son of an Irish father and an English mother, Dillon initially trained for the priesthood; however, he abandoned all plans for a career in the church when he was 21, and immersed himself in the study of Oriental languages at the...

     (died 1933), author and journalist; Russian correspondent of The Daily Telegraph
    The Daily Telegraph
    The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...

     from 1887 to 1914; professor of Comparative Philology
    Comparative linguistics
    Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness....

     at the University of Kharkiv
    Kharkiv University
    The University of Kharkiv or officially the Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University is one of the major universities in Ukraine, and earlier in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union...

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  • George Dillon (poet), a poet and one of the lovers of Edna St. Vincent Millay
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work...

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  • George Dillon, eponymous fictional character from Epitaph for George Dillon
    Epitaph for George Dillon
    Epitaph for George Dillon is an early John Osborne play, one of two he wrote in collaboration with Anthony Creighton . It was written before Look Back in Anger, the play which made Osborne’s career, but opened a year after in Oxford in 1957 and moved to London’s Royal Court theatre, where Look...

  • Hugh Dillon
    Hugh Dillon
    Hugh Dillon is a Canadian musician and actor.-Music career:Dillon was the lead singer for the Kingston hard rock band The Headstones from 1987 until 2003...

     (born 1963)
  • Jack Dillon
    Jack Dillon
    Ernest Cutler Price was light heavyweight boxing champion of the world.-Personal:...

    , a boxer
    Boxing
    Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

     in the International Boxing Hall of Fame
    International Boxing Hall of Fame
    The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame is located in Canastota, New York, United States, within driving distance from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown and the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta...

    .
  • Sir James Dillon (officer)
    James Dillon (officer)
    Sir James Dillon was an officer in the armies of the Irish Confederate Catholic during the Irish Confederate Wars and a Member of the Parliament of Ireland...

     (confederacy
    Confederate Ireland
    Confederate Ireland refers to the period of Irish self-government between the Rebellion of 1641 and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649. During this time, two-thirds of Ireland was governed by the Irish Catholic Confederation, also known as the "Confederation of Kilkenny"...

     officer)
  • James Dale Dillon (1937–1968) 82nd Airbourne
  • James Dillon (composer)
    James Dillon (composer)
    James Dillon, born October 29, 1950 in Glasgow, Scotland, is a Scottish composer often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school. Dillon studied art and design, linguistics, piano, acoustics, Indian rhythm, mathematics and computer music, but is self-taught in composition.Honors include...

     (born 1950), a Scottish
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

     composer.
  • James Dillon (Fine Gael politician) (1902–1986), an Irish
    Irish people
    The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

     politician and leader of Fine Gael
    Fine Gael
    Fine Gael is a centre-right to centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland. It is the single largest party in Ireland in the Oireachtas, in local government, and in terms of Members of the European Parliament. The party has a membership of over 35,000...

     from 1959 to 1965.
  • James J. Dillon
    James J. Dillon
    James J. "J.J." Dillon is a retired American professional wrestler and manager.He is best known for being the strategic leader of the original Four Horsemen that consisted of Nature Boy Ric Flair, Tully Blanchard, Arn and Ole Anderson. He is most remembered as a manager in pro wrestling...

  • Jerome Dillon
    Jerome Dillon
    Jerome Dillon is a professional musician, best known for his tenure as drummer with industrial rock group Nine Inch Nails from 1999-2005. After his departure, his own project, Nearly, released its debut album reminder in December 2005, along with a cd maxi-single for the song Straight to...

    , a professional musician, best known for his tenure as drummer with the industrial group Nine Inch Nails
    Nine Inch Nails
    Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...

     from 1999 to 2005.
  • John Dillon
    John Dillon
    John Dillon was an Irish land reform agitator from Dublin, an Irish Home Rule activist, a nationalist politician, a Member of Parliament for over 35 years, and the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party....

     (1851–1927), an Irish nationalist
    Irish nationalism
    Irish nationalism manifests itself in political and social movements and in sentiment inspired by a love for Irish culture, language and history, and as a sense of pride in Ireland and in the Irish people...

     Member of Parliament
    Member of Parliament
    A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

     and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party
    Irish Parliamentary Party
    The Irish Parliamentary Party was formed in 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons at...

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  • John A. Dillon
    John A. Dillon
    John Andrew Dillon, Jr. was an American physicist, administrator, Professor at the University of Louisville, and founder and first director of the Systems Science Institute at the University of Louisville.- Biography :...

    , Jr. (1923–2005) an American physicist.
  • John Blake Dillon
    John Blake Dillon
    John Blake Dillon was an Irish writer and Politician who was one of the founding members of the Young Ireland movement....

     (1814–1866)
  • John Forrest Dillon
    John Forrest Dillon
    John Forrest Dillon was an American jurist who served on both federal and Iowa state courts, and who authored a highly influential treatise on the power of states over municipal governments.-Early life and career:...

     (1831–1914)
  • John Francis Dillon (director)
    John Francis Dillon (director)
    John Francis Dillon was an American film director and actor of the silent era. He directed 130 films between 1914 and 1934...

    , (1884–1934), American film director and actor of the silent era
  • John Francis Dillon (commissioner) (1866–1927)
  • Joseph E. Dillon
    Joseph E. Dillon
    Joseph E. Dillon was the mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota from 1954 to 1960....

    , Democrat mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota from 1954 to 1960.
  • Kevin Dillon (actor)
    Kevin Dillon (actor)
    Kevin Brady Dillon is an American actor best known as Johnny "Drama" Chase on the HBO dramedy Entourage. He has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for his performance on the show.- Early life :...

     (born 1965), an Irish-American actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     who is the younger brother of actor Matt Dillon
    Matt Dillon
    Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon is an American actor and film director. He began acting in the late 1970s, gaining fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s.- Early life :...

    .
  • Lawrence Dillon
    Lawrence Dillon
    Lawrence Dillon is an American composer, and currently Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His music has a wide range of expression, generally within a tonal idiom notable both for its rhythmic propulsiveness and a strong lyrical element...

     (born 1959)
  • Leo and Diane Dillon
    Leo and Diane Dillon
    Leo and Diane Dillon are an American husband and wife team of illustrators. Among their awards are two consecutive Caldecott Medals for the children's books Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears and Ashanti To Zulu: African Traditions....

    , husband and wife artists, known for their illustrations for children's books.
  • Mary Dillon
    Mary Dillon
    Mary Dillon is an Irish folk singer. She is best known for her work with the traditional band Déanta. Following Déanta's breakup, Dillon has worked as a teacher...

     (born 1965), a folk singer
    Folk music
    Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

     from Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

     and sister of Cara Dillon
    Cara Dillon
    Cara Dillon is an Irish folk singer. In 2001, she launched her career as a solo artist in the UK with the eponymous Cara Dillon album...

    .
  • Mary-Margaret Dillon (1955-) Handweaver/Artist,Mary-Margaret Weaving Studio,Marietta,GA
  • Martin Dillon
    Martin Dillon
    Martin Dillon is an author and journalist from Northern Ireland. He worked for eighteen years at the BBC and has written a number of plays and novels, but he is best known for his non-fiction books about the Troubles....

  • Matt Dillon
    Matt Dillon
    Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon is an American actor and film director. He began acting in the late 1970s, gaining fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s.- Early life :...

     (born 1964), an Irish-American actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

    .
  • Matt Dillon (computer scientist)
    Matt Dillon (computer scientist)
    Matthew Dillon is a computer scientist living in Berkeley, California. He is best known for his contributions to FreeBSD and for starting the DragonFly BSD project....

     (born 1967), a computer scientist
    Computer scientist
    A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....

     best known for his work on the FreeBSD
    FreeBSD
    FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...

     and DragonFly BSD
    DragonFly BSD
    DragonFly BSD is a free Unix-like operating system created as a fork of FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and a FreeBSD developer between 1994 and 2003, began work on DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists on July...

     projects.
  • Mavis "Mave" Dillon, a former member of the UK-based band Chumbawamba
    Chumbawamba
    Chumbawamba is a British musical group who have, over a career spanning nearly three decades, played punk rock, pop-influenced music, world music, and folk music...

    .
  • Melinda Dillon
    Melinda Dillon
    Melinda Rose Dillon is an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the holiday classic A Christmas Story.-Early life and career:...

     (born 1939)
  • Mervyn Dillon
    Mervyn Dillon
    Mervyn Dillon in Mission Village, Toco, Trinidad and Tobago, is a West Indian cricketer. He has played 38 in Tests and taken 131 wickets. He has also played 108 One Day Internationals from 1997-2004. At one stage, after the bowling greats Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose retired from...

     (born 1974)
  • Michelle Dillon
    Michelle Dillon
    Michelle Dillon is a British triathlete.Dillon's first Olympic triathlon was at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was one of the three British athletes, along with Sian Brice and Andrew Johns, not to finish the competition...

     (born 1973)
  • Myles Dillon
    Myles Dillon
    Myles Dillon was an Irish historian, philologist and celticist.Myles Dillon was born in Dublin; he was one of six children of John Dillon and his wife Elizabeth Mathew; James Matthew Dillon, the leader of Fine Gael, was his younger brother.Myles Dillon graduated from University College Dublin,...

     (1900–1972), Senior Professor in the School of Celtic Studies
    Celt
    The Celts were a diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Roman-era Europe who spoke Celtic languages.The earliest archaeological culture commonly accepted as Celtic, or rather Proto-Celtic, was the central European Hallstatt culture , named for the rich grave finds in Hallstatt, Austria....

     at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
    Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
    The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Dublin, Ireland was established in 1940 by the Taoiseach of the time, Éamon de Valera under the . The Institute consists of 3 schools: The , the and the . The directors of these schools are currently Professor Werner Nahm, Professor Luke Drury and...

    .
  • Peter Dillon
    Peter Dillon
    Peter Dillon was a sandalwood trader, self-proclaimed explorer, raconteur, and discoverer of the fate of the La Pérouse expedition.-Early career:...

     (1788–1847) was a sandalwood trader, self-proclaimed explorer, raconteur, and discoverer of the fate of the La Pérouse
    La Perouse
    La Perouse may refer to* Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, a French naval officer and explorer,and the following places which were named after him:* La Perouse, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney...

     expedition.
  • Pete Dillon (1968) Radio and TV presenter, food writer and businessman (Australia)
  • Richard C. Dillon
    Richard C. Dillon
    Richard Charles Dillon was an American politician and the eighth Governor of New Mexico. He held governor's office from January 1, 1927 to January 1, 1931.- Early life :...

    , Republican Governor of New Mexico
    New Mexico
    New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

     from 1927 to 1931.
  • Robert Sherwood Dillon
    Robert Sherwood Dillon
    Robert Sherwood Dillon was the United States Ambassador to Lebanon from 1981 to 1983. He was born in 1929 in Chicago and attended Duke University, graduating in 1951.- References :...

     (born 1929) U.S. Diplomat and Ambassador to Lebanon 1983 to 1984.
  • Roberto Dillon (born 1973), Italian computer engineer, author and academic. Currently a Professor at the DigiPen Institute of Technology.
  • Ron Dillon, Jr.
    Ron Dillon, Jr.
    Ronald Chaney "Ron" Dillon, Jr. is an American politician and former Chairman of the County Council of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Dillon is a Republican; he was elected to the Council in November 2002 and re-elected in 2006, serving until his second term ended in December 2010.Dillon is a CPA...

     (born 1975)
  • Ronald Edward Dillon, (born 1969), Director of Online Education for Realty World Northern California and Nevada
  • Sam Dillon, New York Times correspondent
  • Sandra Dillon (born 1970), photographer
  • Sidney Dillon
    Sidney Dillon
    Sidney Dillon , an America railroad executive and one the nations premier railroad builders.-Biography:Dillon was born in Northampton, Fulton County, New York...

    , President of Union Pacific Railroad
    Union Pacific Railroad
    The Union Pacific Railroad , headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States. James R. Young is president, CEO and Chairman....

     (1874–1884).
  • Steve Dillon
    Steve Dillon
    Steve Dillon is a British comic book artist, from Luton, Bedfordshire, best known for his work with writer Garth Ennis on Hellblazer, Preacher and The Punisher.-Biography:...

  • Thomas Carter Dillon (born 1968) Senior Vice President, Programs World Wildlife Fund
  • Thomas Dillon
    Thomas Dillon
    Thomas Lee Dillon was a serial killer who shot and killed five men in southeastern Ohio, beginning April 1, 1989 and continuing until April 1992....

     - American serial killer.
  • William Dillon
    William Dillon
    William Austin Dillon was an American songwriter and Vaudevillian. He is best known as the lyricist for the song "I Want a Girl " , written in collaboration with Harry Von Tilzer. It can be heard in Show Business and The Jolson Story...

     (1877–1966)
  • Regan Dillon - (born 1980) pioneering exploration geologist from New Zealand
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